The benefits of Sewage pump station

When you hear the word sewage, you think of the nasty and contaminated water that would not even be considered safe or clean for humans to drink or to use for anything. If the sewage water is not cleaned before it is gotten rid of, the environment could suffer from it.

A Sewage pump station is a very important tool in disposing of waste. This waste is detrimental to the environment and so it’s vital to dealt with it properly.

A sewage pumping station otherwise referred to as a lift station, is basically used for dealing with raw sewage. This reaches the station through an underground gravity pipeline system. This system is composed of pipes which are placed at such an angle so that the sewage can flow unidirectional under gravity.

The sewage moves into an underground pit, known as a wet well, and here it’s stored. To prevent the pit from overflowing, it contains equipment which is able to monitor the height of the sewage inside it. If it should rise above a certain level, a pump begins to push it out into a specialized pipe system coined a sewer force main. From here it moves into a gravity manhole. This cycle continues until the sewage reaches its final destination, that is, a sewage treatment plant.

In brief, a sewage pumping station is used to pump sewage from a lower region to a higher one. They can be utilized simply because they’re the cheaper option. Examples are in cases where it makes more economic sense to pump it over a ridge and then let it flow naturally due to gravity into a sewage treatment plant or by lifting the sewage high enough to move through a sewage treatment plant again using gravity. Alternatively, they’re useful in cases where a hydraulic head wouldn’t be adequate.